indricothere, n. Palaeontol.
Brit. /ˈɪndrɪkə(ʊ)ˌθɪə/, U.S. /ˈɪndrɪkəˌθɪ(ə)r/
[‹ scientific Latin Indricotherium, genus name (A. A. Borisjak 1916, in Geol. vestnik 1 131; > connective + scientific Latin -therium -therium comb. form): see -there comb. form.]
Any of a group of extinct herbivorous ungulate mammals of great height, related to rhinoceroses and found as fossils in Eurasian deposits of the Oligocene epoch.
Indricotheres are perissodactyls of the family Hyracodontidae, subfamily Paraceratheriinae.
| 1966 Jrnl. Mammalogy 47 635 This group of rhinocerotoids appears to have given rise to the giant indricotheres of the Oligocene. 1996 S. J. Gould Life's Grandeur (1997) v. 72 The largest land mammals that ever lived—the giant indricotheres, including the all-time size champion Paraceratherium (often called Baluchitherium), which stood eighteen feet tall at the shoulder and browsed on treetops. 2002 J. Agust{iacu} & M. Antón Mammoths, Sabertooths, & Hominids iii. 70 Adult indricotheres were virtually immune to predation. |